Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Players' Page

Barack Christmas (yes, this is a real movie)

Alex @ Thursday, January 1st 09:12PM [link]

Double-week update to finish the year.

Movement

New player Kouider Benarioua debuts in a Titan B place. He appears to be one of the guys from the French MKDD site, so he has probably been playing for years and only decided to join now. Apart from missing WS times, he looks like top-50 material but is so far unranked. As a result, many people lost about 1 AF point but didn't lose a position.

#130 Liam Stanton improved by 5 positions before Christmas, reaching 80th place on the 60Hz ladder and making the cut to become Hero C. #179 Tony Nguyen and #190 Jeff Tsang were the next active players down, with Jeff improving 22 positions to enter the top-200. Meanwhile, Tony moved up 18 spots to maintain a gap between them. Notably, both of them reached Expert A to end the year. Tony is already on the downhill to Hero.

#339 Chris Kelley picked up his controller after half a year away to score 10 new PRs in time for Christmas. A 15pt cut almost brought him to the 60Hz top-250 again, but he is now 254th.

A few others preferred to Mario Kart rather than party during the final week of 2008: Andrew Math, Kevin Cavanagh, Alienne Wan, Jivago Pacheco da Silva and David Schiering.

New Records

No new records.

New Players

Welcome to...

Kouider Benarioua, France (~50?, Titan B).
Duncan Graves, UK (458th, Advanced D).
Anna Kitor, Canada (~820, Beginner B). Anna hasn't sent in any lap times yet.

Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Barack by Five

Alex @ Wednesday, December 17th 11:28PM [link]

Movement

We're approaching the Christmas season, generally a time when people go on holidays or buy new games to play, so expect a quiet end to the year.

#61 Sebastien Legay raced some new 60Hz PRs and passed Martin Rudmarker overall. He's close to passing two fellow French players, Stefan and Arnaud, but needs another couple of PRs. On the 60Hz ranking, Sebastien passed Andre Overesch to take 29th place.

#86 Paulo Roberto Presotto and #135 Liam Stanton were active, but didn't gain ladder positions. This gave #121 Jivago Pacheco da Silva a chance to catch up a little to Paulo and pull away from Liam. Jivago cut 4 pts in AF and passed a few players. He also passed a few in 60Hz, reaching 73rd.
Despite his small cut, Paulo did set a nice achievement this week: he became the 84th player to become a Titan.

Two of our Eastern Westerners made the bigger moves of the week, with #197, USA's Tony Nguyen, racing 23 PRs to cut 35 AF pts and #212, Canada's Jeff Tsang, racing 11 PRs to cut 17 AF pts. Tony passed Jeff and reached the top-200 with double the PRs and double the cut, but Jeff's work was not bad at all considering both reached the top-150 in 60Hz: Tony 133rd and Jeff 144th. Unfortunately they didn't improve their ARR ranks (both Exp B), but there's always next week.

New Records

No Dutchies were active this week, so no new records.

New Players

Welcome to...

David Moorhouse, from the UK (overall 698th, 60Hz 523rd, Beginner A).

Brokebarack Mountain

Alex @ Wednesday, December 10th 06:37PM [link]

Movement

#86 Paulo Roberto Presotto passed #87 Scott Abbey overall. He is still one position behind Scott in 60Hz (42nd vs. 43rd), but Paulo instead passed Chavallier Florian there. He reported 6 PRs this week, 5 of which were Titan times. Rumour has it that he doesn't like being a Hero A...

#123 Jivago Pachecho and #135 Liam Stanton were both active again. Jivago is still ahead and reached Hero B status this week, but Liam made more movement by passing 3 players. In 60Hz, Jivago reached 74th and Liam reached 83rd.

#236 Tony Nguyen added a little extra to his comeback last week, and with only 2 new PRs to send us, he improved by another 3 places and became an Expert B.

#279 Rogerio Schneider looks set to reach the 60Hz top-200 soon, where he is currently 205th. He hasn't got much to go: about 6 AF pts. This week he passed 3 players overall and 3 players in 60Hz.

#344 Kevin McAteer staged a random comeback after almost two years. Maybe he just needed his quick MKDD fix to ge this 6 PRs, or maybe he'll want to make up for some of his lost ground; he's only just outside the top-250 in 60Hz right now, at 257th.

New Records

No new records?!?! sad

New Players

No new players.

Men In Barack

Alex @ Thursday, December 4th 12:23AM [link]

Movement

Combined #3 and 60Hz #2 Aron Langerak passed Hendrik Bunde to take 2nd place in 60Hz. The top-5 are now Netherlands, Netherlands, Germany, Germany, France, so the two Dutchies are ruling the world (even though those three countries are very close to each other on a map).

#123 Jivago Pacheco da Silva reached the top-75 on the 60Hz ladder, taking the 75th position away from Michael Fried. On the combined ladder, he passed Dave Phaneuf and former champion Cesar Martin. Not far behind him is #138 Liam Stanton, who passed MKW champ and part-time journalist Alvin van Asselt. Liam is 10 places behind Jivago in 60Hz, at 85th.

#227 Jeff Tsang's mini-comeback is coming in a little flaccid, averaging about one PR per week. But it's better to come slow than to leave her unsatisfied. This week Jeff flushed both his old WC times, and is up to 20 Exp A/B times. Nearby member #239 Tony Nguyen staged a big coming back after several years' long abstinence to report 24 new PRs for an AF cut of 69. Tony improved his game with 70 new positions. #282 Rogerio Schneider, Brazilian, joined the party with a 35 cut of his own to reach the top-300.

#421 Leo Schneider, close to becoming Adv B, moved up ten places.

Finally, Dave's junior cousin, #565 Berndard Leclerc, raced 27 new PRs over the past 1-2 months for a big 96pt cut -- only just missed out on three digits. He jumped 100 places in the combined ladder, reached the top-500 in 60Hz (now 426th), and became an Intermediate B.

New Records

There were 2 new records this week, both in 60Hz and raced by Mar... erm, by Aron! Yes, Aron played his best course going for that 1'03, and he got it: the new Baby Park record is now 1'03"965, a G+6 and 0"25 ahead of second-placed Marijn. Aron is also the only player to sub 1'04 in 50Hz, so he now has a 1'03 in both systems. His new 60Hz time is 0.11 slower than his 50Hz record.

Aron's second record was the Baby Park lap, at 8"476 G+10. It ties the previous 8"476 record set by Marijn in February.

New Players

No new players.

The Barack Knight

Alex @ Monday, November 24th 12:47AM [link]

Movement

60Hz #1 Marijn raced 4 new records. You can see the videos in the New Vids topic, or read about them lower down. He remains on 28/32 60Hz WRs because he already he improved on his own records, but one of his records was a new combined WR and brought his overall WR tally to 4. Marijn also tied #4 Andreas Rudmarker for 4th place overall, and inched a little closer to being the first 60Hz god.

60Hz #3 Aron Langerak, who is ahead of Marijn overall but behind him in 60Hz, wants the 60Hz #2 position back. He raced three 60Hz PRs this week, including a WR, to gain a bit on #2 Hendrik and is now just 0.03 away from getting that 2nd place.

#87 Paulo Roberto Presotto passed two players this week. He made a nice 0.4 cut in ARR to guarantee that he'll get a big rank promotion next week if he just races a couple of new PRs...

#308 Rogerio Schneider moved up 7 places overall and 9 places in 60Hz (to 226th).

New records

Aron Langerak improved the 1'04"15 he set earlier this month on Baby Park (60Hz) with a 1'04"072. It's G+5 and 0"13 ahead of Marijn.

Marijn raced 4 new records. First was 1'29"750 on Dry Dry Desert, a 60Hz record and new overall record. In the 60Hz chart, Marijn already held this record and extended his lead over second-placed Aron to nearly 0"5. On the combined ladder, the new record narrowly beats Hendrik and Aron's 50Hz scores (by 0"02-0"03) but reaches the G+7 standard that they missed. Four players have subbed 1'30.

Marijn's second and third records were on Mushroom Bridge: 1'18"624 and 25"714. The course time is a 0"24 lead on Aron and the lap time is a 0"08 lead on Olivier. Marijn already held both records, so he likely wanted to improve his ARR. His course time remained G+4, but he did make a G+3 to G+4 cut on the lap.

Marijn's last record was 1'27"472 on Mario Circuit, a 0"3 cut on the old record.

New Players

No new players.

Meet Joe, Barack

Alex @ Tuesday, November 18th 04:26AM [link]

Movement

60Hz champ Marijn Jongbloed raced the 28th 60Hz WR on his road to 1.0 AF, with only four records left in other peoples' name. His AF is currently 1.25. Last week he also became the fifth person overall to reach God level. He may soon do so using just his 60Hz timesheet and become the first 60Hz God -- he has 0.12pts left to go. Since we expect him to go for 32/32 system records, we can make a good guess on which tracks he plans to play.

#78 Ian Gee passed fellow American #80 Ryan Stevens, and hopes to soon pass one of more famous US karters in MKDD, #77 Jon Prentice. If he reaches Jon, he can then go for #75 Rob Chastain. This week Ian also passed Kevin Sirman, Sylvin Regal and Fabien da Silva.

Brazil's #125 Jivago and #89 Paulo were both active. Paulo passed Daniel Sloggett overall and John Anderson in 60Hz, while Jivago did some catching up (he was losing ground to Paulo for a while) by passing 7 players. Jivago has the potential to catch up a lot because his PRs are unevenly spread out -- he has Titan, Hero and Expert times, and has many scores in the top-100 while several outside the top-200. Focusing on his weakest tracks will see him do the most climbing with the fewest PRs.

#214 Alvaro Fababu and #233 Jeff Tsang passed a couple of players on the overall ladder, but it's 60Hz where they are battling each other: Jeff is ahead by a few places (163rd vs. 169th), with Alvaro catching up to Jeff by making up 6 AF pts more than him this week.

#315 Rogerio Schneider became an Expert player this week by reaching Exp D. Most of his scores (19 of them) are still Advanced level, but he just raced some low Expert scores to tip the overall balance and get the promotion. These included his new best score, an Expert B lap on BP. #431 Leo Schneider made a nice 20pt AF cut to pass 24 players and make up some lost ground on Rogerio, although he is still many positions behind Rogerio.

New Records

Marijn improved the Wario Colosseum lap record to 58"339. This new time is 0"07 faster than Marius's previous record, which lasted over 2 years. So not much changed... both scores are similar and the hold's name starts with Mari- and has six letters. One difference is that Marijn's score achieves the God standard. Also, Marius no longer has any 60hz records left, but only three guys remain who can say that Marijn hasn't taken all their records.

New Players

Welcome to...

Julian Grassberger, Austria. No stats for his yet -- he plans to send us his scores soon.

Barack to the Future

Alex @ Monday, November 10th 03:07AM [link]

Movement

Not much activity this week, perhaps because of the election distraction. There's a bunch of posts that came in just today, but they'll roll over to next week's update.

60Hz champ Marijn Jongbloed scored 3 more records. One of these was already his record, but the others were 2/7 of the records that he did not yet have. He got them, improving his WR tally from 25 to 27, and has only 5 more records to go before catching them all. Having nearly all the 60Hz records means that Marijn must have a very low AF. And he does, at a low 1.34 AF pts, which is 1/3rd of second place. Oh, and just quickly before I forgot: Marijn also become God this week.

#51 Ivo van der Stap is making a sort-of-comeback, playing only one course this week. He improved both his RR times, making it past #52 Jonathan Eyma on the ladder.

#90 Paulo Roberto Presotto raced 9 PRs and moved ahead of 5 players. In 60Hz, he moved past 20% more players; he also made the top-50 there (currently 46th), passing the likes of Paul Tanney and Bart Janssen-Bouwmeester. As for the other regulars, #139 Liam Stanton and #234 Jeff Tsang both gained a few positions, and #321 Rogerio Schneider moved up 13 positions.

New Records

Marijn raced three records. Two were on Peach Beach. His new 1'07"678 course time improved on his older time by 1/5th of a second. Marijn was probably racing for the lap record, though, since Konsta Jukka had it. Marijn's 21'714 there beat Konsta's record, set 2 years ago, by 0.04. Konsta's 21"75 was G+7, and Marijn's time is G+9.
The third record beaten was DK Mountain. Hendrik Bunde had the previous top time of 1'43"987. Marijn's 1'43"829 was 1/6th of a second quicker, and an improvement from Myth C to Myth B for this record.

New Players

No new players.

Gobama or Nobama?

Alex @ Monday, November 3rd 02:57AM [link]

Movement

60Hz #1 Marijn was active again, scoring a few more records. Refer to the Records section for those. Marijn is on a quest to become the #4 player overall, which would mean beating current #4 Andreas Rudmarker. Andreas wants Marijn to stop playing, but there are some people on the forum who think Marijn will manage to do it -- he has has 0.35 to go, but he is Dutch, so it's his job to PR smash. Speaking of PR smash, Marijn now has 17 Combined Hz records set in 60Hz, which are faster than his 50Hz scores. That's more than half of the scores! Marijn won't stop playing just yet, because he still has to reach God. And he's obviously trying to reach Andreas, while also trying to get all the 60Hz records. What a greedy guy! smile

#3 Aron Langerak has made a couple of PRs this year, but this week he raced a WR. See the records section. With a few more PRs, Aron could pass Hendrik in 60Hz again... they are 4.0 vs 4.15 in AF.

#82 Ian Gee made a 5pt cut and pass Andrew Johnson and Marvin Mester after racing 10 PRs. These records included his best score (and currently only god time) on Baby Park lap, which he improved to 22nd in the world and from G+2 to G+4. Ian also reached Titan D in ARR, which makes him the newest Titan and the 83rd person to get there.

#141 Liam Stanton scored 10 PRs to pass 5 players. His collection included his first Titan score, a 22"4 PB lap. Liam gained several places on #132 Jivago Pacheco da Silva, who was a little bit active: he improved his BP scores and reach 80th place in 60Hz.

#236 Jeff Tsang reached Expert B level. He scored 4 PRs, but promises a lot more coming up. Gaining on Jeff is #266 Nick Harvey, who moved up 8 spots and is now half-way to reaching Expert B himself. #308 Dennis Scholl did have more PRs to send, but they were not enough to reach the top-300 just yet; the German needs another 11 AF points.

#334 Rogerio Schneider reported a few missing PRs from last week and then raced another 20 or so PRs in the current week for a big 45 point cut in AF. That's almost 50 places on the ladder. In addition, he reached the top-250 in 60Hz and also became Advanced A. #455 Leo Schneider scored 7 PRs and reached Advanced B, too. Both of them mentioned their friend #132 Jivago in their submissions, so maybe he is helping them improve?

New Records

There were 3 records this week, all in lovely 60Hz.

Marijn Jongbloed improved the Sherbet Land course time to 1'14"529, the only Myth+ score raced here despite being only 0"12 faster than the previous record, Marius's 1'14"64 from 2 years ago. Marijn also beat Olivier Peruch's last record, his Dino Dino Jungle 33"12 lap, with a 33"095. Both of those scores were God.
Marijn increased his 60hz WR tally to 25, with the remaining 7 records shared among 5 other players.

One of those players was Aron Langerak. This week Marijn beat Aron's last 60Hz record, Baby Park 1'04"22, with a 1'04"20. But Aron doesn't want to give that record to anyone because it's his best course. He beat it back with a 1'04"154 at the end of the week. Both Dutchies have a G+4 time in 60Hz here. However, Aron is a bit faster (he's done 1'03 in 50Hz compared to Marijn's 1'04"09) and wants to improve the 60Hz record to 1'03 as well.

New Players

Welcome to...

Luke Glendinning, from Scotland. Currently a Newbie because he hasn't given us any scores smile